Joe Posnanski

Well, I made it back from Fort Leavenworth. They let me leave on my own. We’ll tell you all about it some point, but in the meantime, here is the beginning of our Pixipedia ... we start with our first installment of Pixifoods, which includes many of your suggestions. * * * Pixifood (PIKZ-ee-food), noun: Any food substance that is highly pleasant to the taste as a child and tastes shockingly unpleasant once you become an adult. Baseball Card Gum As a child it ... Read More

Atlanta, 1996 was my first Olympics. You might recall that there were a few problems with that Olympics. The complex and multi-layered bus schedule, apparently, was designed by forest animals. Everybody had a bus story before the end*. A terrorist set off a bomb. There were the constant and creepy pronouncements from organizer Billy Payne and his bunch about how the Olympics “were going according to plan.” The Southern humidity wore everyone down. The horrendous Izzy Mascot was everywhere you turned. And ... Read More

By Max Mercy NEW YORK -- Emil “Frenchie” Lajong, a player New York Knights scout Scotty Carson found while vacationing in Canada, won the Home Run Derby yesterday afternoon by clouting two glorious round trippers in the final round on a sun-dappled afternoon in the big city. Lajong defeated his forlorn teammate Roy Hobbs, who managed only one home run in the final round, this after hitting 383 home runs in the first round. “I thought ze Derby was never to end,” Lajong said. ... Read More

I will begin here by linking to my my wife Margo’s blog because she too has weighed in on the question that is sweeping the nation, Costner vs. Cruise. What a race! * * * I have mentioned this before: I don’t listen to talk radio. This goes back to my brief and spectacularly unsuccessful run as a sports talk show host back in the 1990s. I can’t tell you a lot about those five or six weeks how because I’ve blocked them out, ... Read More

The headline, as you no doubt know, is how Bruce Springsteen described his seminal song Rosalita (Come Out Tonight). I love Rosalita too. Well, of course, everyone loves Rosie. I think Rosalita is the most explosive song Bruce ever performed ... he’s written better songs, much better songs, I even think he’s written better love songs*, but I don’t think he’s ever written a song that takes off and flies like Rosalita does. Every so often, as an experiment about life, I ... Read More